THE FLORISTS MANUAL. 



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beauty and are usually the finest grow- 

 ers. 



Plants that are wanted for outside 

 beds should be wintered over in pots 

 in a very cool, light cellar or cool 

 house and given only water enough to 

 keep them from shriveling. Large 

 specimens that are wanted for summer 

 use are also wintered very cool, short- 

 ened back in the spring, mulched or 

 shifted and started growing slowly. 

 Our hot summers are against fuchsias. 



Varieties are innumerable. Mr. E. G. 

 Hill, of Richmond, Ind., and others im- 

 port yearly all the newer varieties and 

 test their merits for our climate. 



A leading establishment describes 

 the following: 



Double Varieties. 



Cervantes: Purple corolla, crimson 

 sepals. 



Phenominal: Dark plum color, great 

 size. 



Mme. Thibaut: White corolla, crim- 

 son sepals. 



Molesworth: White corolla, crimson 

 sepals. 



Storm King: White corolla, scarlet 

 sepals. 



Pres. Carnot: Mauve corolla, crim- 

 son sepals. 



Single Varieties. 



Annie Earle: Carmine corolla, white 

 sepals. 



Beacon: Carmine corolla, scarlet se- 

 pals. 



Brilliant: Scarlet corolla, white se- 

 pals. 



Earl of Beaconsfield: Orange corol- 

 la and sepals. 



Mrs. Marshall: Carmine corolla, 

 white sepals. 



Speciosa: Orange scarlet corolla, 

 white sepals; an old but standard vari- 

 ety and one of the very best for use in 

 veranda boxes or beds. 



Black Prince: Corolla and sepals 

 carmine. This is a grand market vari- 

 ety; the best of growers, fine habit, 

 and a profuse bloomer. 



Fuchsias should be used in vases 

 and veranda boxes only where the sun 

 reaches them for but a few hours dur- 

 ing the day. They may look attractive 

 when first put in a vase, but are soon 

 leafless stalks without shade and plen- 

 ty of water. 



FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES. 



If it were not for our enemies the 

 aphides, spider, thrip, mealy bug and 

 many other minute animals, with the 

 low plant organisms, the mildews, 

 rusts, etc., our calling would be com- 

 paratively easy, and we are not the 

 only ones. The fruit grower, market 

 gardener and farmer all have their 

 foes, compelling us to keep up a con- 

 tinual watch and fight against their at- 

 tacks. 



It is really half the battle to keep 

 our minute enemies at bay, but think 

 what would be the consequence if 

 there were no greenfly or red spider, 

 no mildew or rust. What would be 

 the profits of flower growing? It 

 would be small, for every careless fel- 



low would have what is called "Good 

 luck." As it is it is not good luck but 

 good reward for continual care, watch- 

 fulness and industry. Perhaps it is 

 just as well as it is, for although you 

 can scarcely imagine in a past or fu- 

 ture paradise that white scale will 

 trouble the orange trees, or some fu- 

 ture Eve will have to apply kerosene 

 emulsion for mealy bug, the present 

 time is one that rewards the gardener 

 for his industry and faithfulness to his 

 duty, and no little part of his thoughts 

 are taken up repelling the attacks of 

 the many afflictions he is heir to in 

 the fungoid and insect line. 



Peter Henderson wrote more than 

 thirty years ago that the least excus- 

 able of the gardener's failings was al- 

 lowing his plants to become infested 

 with aphis, because it was easily reme- 

 died. Quite right. Yet you see men 

 today walk through their carnation 

 houses where every shoot is covered 

 with aphis. If any remark is made the 

 reply is usually: "Yes, I must smoke." 

 Or: "I am all out of stems. I must 

 get some." Alas, the greenfly is the 

 least to be dreaded. It succumbs to 

 tobacco in several forms. Not so with 

 all our insects and as for the mildews 



and rusts it is more the condition of 

 the plant that we must improve than 

 to combat the diseases. Keep the plant 

 vigorous and its environments right 

 and the mildew and rust will not ap- 

 pear. 



Some years ago I attempted to grow 

 Mermet roses in a house that could not 

 on cold nights be kept at over 50 de- 

 grees, and very cold nights perhaps not 

 over 47 degrees. I did not pick many 

 roses, but the plants looked healthy. 

 One morning I discovered the end ven- 

 tilator open six inches and the ther- 

 mometer down to 10 degrees outside. 

 I thought to myself frost inside sure, 

 if not, then a good dose of mildew. It 

 was nearly a frost, but not a sign of 

 mildew appeared. The plants were 

 making a slow, firm growth and could 

 stand the chill they got. If the house 

 had been kept steadily at 58 or 60 de- 

 grees mildew would have appeared for 

 certain. The above is not quoted to 

 instruct you in rose growing by any 

 means. 



Man and other animals hate a 

 draught and so do plants. Man can 

 stand for a while in a gale of wind 

 and the mercury at zero with no more 

 damage than cold fingers and chilled 



Cross of Eucharis Flowers. 



